The CN Yang Award has been established to honor young researchers
with prominent research achievements and to promote the development of leaders
in physics in the Asia Pacific region. The Association of Asia Pacific Physical
Societies (AAPPS) and the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)
have jointly established the AAPPS-APCTP Chen-Ning Yang Award (CN Yang Award).

Eligibility

1.The awardee must have
obtained a PhD in physics or an equivalent degree no more than 10 years prior to the date of nomination.2.The awardee must have
done the work to be awarded when s/he had an affiliation to an institution in a member country/region.3.The awardee must have an
affiliation to an institution in a
member country/region at the time of nomination.

Channel of Nominations

1.Self-nomination is not possible.

2.Through a member society:

I. Societies with divisional structure (Australia, CPS, KPS, JSAP, JPS,
Indonesia, and Vietnam): Each division chair can make one
nomination every year in the relevant specialty.

II. Societies without divisional structure: The president of each society can
make up to three nominations every year.

3.Individual nomination:

Each participant of the most recent Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC)
organized by AAPPS, who has paid the full registration fee, has a right to make
one nomination in the period prior to the deadline, before the next APPC is
held.

Nomination Package

The nomination package must be prepared in a single PDF file and
must be submitted by e-mail to the secretary of AAPPS and the administrative
office of APCTP at award@apctp.org simultaneously, prior to the announced deadline, together with a
cover letter indicating the most relevant session name of the most recent or
forthcoming APPC.The package must
include all of the materials that are listed below.

1.A letter of not more
than 5000 characters explaining the nominee’s achievements with a citation having less than 300 characters.

2.The nominee’s contact
information.

3.The nominee’s
biographical information, including the date when the nominee’s PhD was received and the institution where
the PhD was awarded.

4.The nominee’s
publication list, including the URL information where the complete texts of five of the nominee’s
foremost publications can be retrieved.

Sessions of the APPC14

Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Gravitation

Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Condensed Matter, Semiconductor & Materials Physics

Particle Physics

Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Optics & Laser

Synchrotron Radiation

Statistical Physics & Bioinformatics

Complex Systems, Mathematical Physics & Computational Physics

Biological and Medical Physics

Physics Education

Magnetism & High Magnetic Field

Nuclear Physics

Plasma Physics

Quantum Information

Selection Process

A selection committee, appointed by the AAPPS Division, the AAPPS
and the APCTP, shall determine the recipient of the prize from the nominations,
taking into account the overall quality and significance of the contribution
and the creativity exhibited in the contribution.

Prize

The prize consists of a US$1000 monetary prize and a certificate
for each recipient. The prizes will be presented to the awardees by the AAPPS
President at the APPC 2019, and the recipients are invited to give talks at APPC
2019 and publish review papers to the AAPPS Bulletin.

Nominations close on April 30 2019.

The AAPPS Chen Ning Yang Award

The idea to create the AAPPS (Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies) Prize or Award was first discussed at the Third Council meeting held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in August 1992. It was noticed that it is important to encourage young physicists in the Asia/Pacific region and to introduce excellent activities in the region around.

In the second term of the AAPPS Council (1994 – 1997) creation of the AAPPS Award of Physics was approved as follows: a. The AAPPS Award is given at the occasion of the Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC) to outstanding young physicists in the country/region where the APPC is held. b. The candidates of awardees are selected by the member society of the AAPPS organizing the APPC (the host society). c. The criteria for selection are decided by the host society. d. The awardees are approved by the Ordinary General Meeting following to the recommendation by the host society. e. The President of the AAPPS awards the AAPPS Award at the APPC.

The Seventh APPC was decided to be held in Beijing, China in August 1997. Then the Chinese Physical Society (the Executive Committee of the 7APPC chaired by Professor Zhao Zhong Xian) selected two candidates of awardees. Both candidates were approved by the Third Ordinary General Meeting of the AAPPS held on 18 August 1997.

The first AAPPS Award was given to two graduate students in China from the AAPPS President at the Closing Ceremony of the 7APPC.

The awardees and their subjects were Mr. Wu Jian (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University) by his contribution on ¡°the electron transport through mesoscopic systems¡± and Mr. Yang Haitao (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) by his contribution on ¡°the development of 4.2K high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope and its applications to high temperature superconductors¡±.

Professor Chen Ning Yang was the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Group for the Formation of the AAPPS from 1988 to August 1990 and the First President of the AAPPS from 11 August 1990 to 2 July 1994.

He worked as a Council member of the AAPPS in the Second term and retired from the Council at the end of 1997. The Council acknowledged his long-standing contribution for the AAPPS and conferred him the title of Honorary President. At the same time the AAPPS Award of Physics was renamed as the AAPPS Chen Ning Yang Award.

Ling LuInstitute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaTopological photonicsLing Lu played an important role in the recognition of the newfield of ¡°topological photonics¡± – the term that he coined, including the first observation of Weyl points, the writing of the first review article, as well as the extension of topological physics into other bosonic and classical systems.

Marcus is internationally recognized as a principal contributor to the emergence of diamond-basedquantum technologies, including quantum microscopy, quantum computing and quantumcommunications. These technologies represent new paradigms of microscopy, computing andcommunications that have the potential to revolutionize many disciplines of science and technology.His research spans first-principles solid state theory to device design and demonstration. Marcus hasreceived several academic awards, including the Geoff Opat Award of the Australian Optical Society,the Dr Phillip Law AC Award of the Royal Society of Victoria, runner-up to the New Journal of PhysicsEarly Career Award and the University of Melbourne Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhDthesis.

Takao SasagawaTokyo Institute of Technology, JapanDiscovery of several novel materials having topological electronic statesThe 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the pioneering theoretical work on ¡°topology in 1D/2D materials¡± developed in 1980¡¯s. Dr. Sasagawa has been trying to develop both new compounds and novel electronic functionality within a new class of 3D bulk materials called "topological insulators and superconductors". His achievement was the discovery of several novel electronic materials including a ¡°magnetic¡± topological insulator, a ¡°polar¡± topological insulator, and a promising candidate topological ¡°superconductor¡±, which will be used to realize innovative topological electronics such as spin devices and quantum computers.